I can't enable my processor's graphics.

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Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing well?

I’m new here and, to be honest, I still don’t know much about computers.

I’m facing a problem and wanted to see if someone could lend me a hand.

Right now I’m using a dedicated video card (RX 550), but I want to use a second monitor. The issue is that this second monitor has a different input, so I bought an adapter — but it didn’t work. I noticed that on my motherboard, the MCR-A520M-DXV4, the ports are compatible with the second monitor, so I tried to connect through it, but the monitor isn’t detected.

While researching, I saw that it might be necessary to enable the processor’s integrated graphics so they work alongside the dedicated video card. My processor is a Ryzen 5 3400G, which has integrated graphics (Radeon Vega), so theoretically this should be possible.

The problem is that in the BIOS of my motherboard I couldn’t find any option to enable the integrated graphics. I browsed several tabs, searched, asked for help from Gemini, from ChatGPT… but nothing has solved it so far :sweat_smile:

If anyone has been through this or has any idea what I could try, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance

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Most computers won’t use the motherboard’s onboard outputs when there is a dedicated graphics card installed.

It’s better to buy another adapter and use it on the graphics card’s output anyway.

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It does work, and it’s been around for quite a while (at least since Intel’s 2nd generation). You just need to enable the appropriate option in the BIOS, which is disabled by default. It’s usually called “iGFX Multi Monitor” and is located within System Agent Configuration (on Intel platforms) or NB Configuration (on AMD platforms)…

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If it’s not the BIOS, my guess is that the adapter is the problem.

This card has DVI + HDMI + DP; what type of adapter did you buy? DVI to HDMI?

There are five types of adapters; I’ve had problems using a DVI-I.

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